Across the Void, Fingertips Afire
With fingertips afire
Reaching out
Into the unknown
Time and space untrodden.
Holding hands is to love
What making first contact
With an alien race
Would be to mankind.
It is that first tenuous
And terrifying leap
Across the void
That changes everything.
Tom King © 2013
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
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| Title | Comments | Submitted |
| Nobody At All | 0 | 09/11/2017 |
| Dialects | 0 | 10/01/2014 |
| An Old Knife | 0 | 08/06/2014 |
| Across the Void, Fingertips Afire | 0 | 08/09/2013 |
| Snizzle | 0 | 03/15/2012 |
| The Letters of the Law | 0 | 02/12/2012 |
| Fresh Powder | 2 | 01/16/2012 |
| Mirror | 0 | 05/26/2011 |
| Roadside Stand | 0 | 05/26/2011 |
| The Chosen Road | 1 | 05/09/2011 |
| Direction | 2 | 05/04/2011 |
| Daisy in Distress | 0 | 03/23/2011 |
| The Wallapaloozas | 0 | 02/25/2011 |
| Old Friends | 1 | 01/10/2011 |
| The Bus Toll | 2 | 12/31/2010 |
| Reaching | 6 | 11/24/2010 |
| Free Enterprise | 3 | 11/13/2010 |
| Whirling | 3 | 09/15/2010 |
| Gonna’ Walk by The River | 3 | 09/05/2010 |
| Daisy's Brown Eyes Shining | 2 | 08/31/2010 |
| Christmas Psalm | 5 | 12/01/2009 |
| Limerick Cycle | 0 | 08/22/2009 |
| Press Conference | 2 | 08/11/2009 |
| Oak Trees on Fourth Street | 0 | 06/17/2009 |
| Neighbors | 2 | 05/10/2009 |
| Time to Fill the Feeder | 3 | 03/06/2009 |
| Hoping | 3 | 02/13/2009 |
| Night Music | 5 | 02/06/2009 |
| Sheila, laughing-eyed | 2 | 02/06/2009 |
| I'm Chasing Dreams | 2 | 02/06/2009 |
| Flower Man II | 1 | 02/04/2009 |
| Christmas Bells | 2 | 02/04/2009 |
| where i am now | 5 | 02/04/2009 |
| The Fields of Hay | 2 | 02/04/2009 |
| I Sat Down in This Damnable Chair | 1 | 02/04/2009 |
| The Flower Man | 1 | 02/04/2009 |
| For Tim | 2 | 02/04/2009 |
| Blessed | 2 | 02/04/2009 |
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